[personal profile] ron_newman posting in [community profile] davis_square
A FedEx driver killed a 90*-year old lady this morning in Davis Square, by making a right turn from Holland Street to Dover Street without looking in the crosswalk first.

* some other news sources say she was 93

(Yes, this is a duplicate of the previous post, but neither the headline nor the text of that post really reflect what actually happened)

Date: 2014-06-15 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] intuition-ist.livejournal.com
totally agree -- I'm now super cautious because of the many heedless pedestrians in the Davis area.

Note for pedestrians though -- cars do have blind spots in front as well as at the sides toward the back of the car. If you see a car with especially thick pillars at the sides of the windshield, that means that there's a blind spot when the car is making a turn. If a pedestrian is in that blind spot when the car is making a turn...

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